Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777
By Unknown Author.
Description
Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous region.Caribbeana offers invaluable period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, Afr...
ISBN(s)
0226453928, 9780226453927
